Exploring in Security: Towards an Attachment-Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

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Jeremy Holmes (University of Exeter, UK)

Exploring in Security

Towards an Attachment-Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Jeremy Holmes (University of Exeter, UK)

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Routledge
29 October 2009

Psychology; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Psychotherapy

Winner of the 2010 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship! This book builds a key clinical bridge between attachment theory and psychoanalysis, deploying Holmes' unique capacity to weld empirical evidence, psychoanalytic theory and consulting room experience into a coherent and convincing whole.

Starting from the theory--practice gap in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, the book demonstrates how attachment theory can help practitioners better understand what they intuitively do in the consulting room, how this benefits clients, and informs evidence-based practice.

Divided into two sections, theory and practice, Exploring in Security discusses the concept of mentalising and considers three components of effective therapy -- the therapeutic relationship, meaning making and change promotion -- from both attachment and psychoanalytic perspectives. The second part of the book applies attachment theory to a number of clinical situations including: working with borderline clients suicide and deliberate self-harm sex and sexuality dreams ending therapy. Throughout the book theoretical discussion is vividly illustrated with clinical material, personal experience and examples from literature and film, making this an accessible yet authoritative text for psychotherapy practitioners at all levels, including psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, mental health nurses and counsellors.

By: Jeremy Holmes (University of Exeter UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9780415554152
ISBN 10: 0415554152
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 29 October 2009
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part I: Principles. Assuming. Mentalising. Attaching. Meaning. Changing. Empowering. Repairing. Poetising. Part II: Practice. Sex and Loving. 'Borderlining'. Suicide and Self-harming. Dreaming. Ending. Epilogue.

Jeremy Holmes is a Psychiatrist and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published prolifically in the field of Attachment Theory and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Now retired from the NHS, he co-runs the postgraduate degree and qualifying course in psychodynamic psychotherapy at Exeter University, and has a small private practice. In 2009 he received the prestigious Bowlby-Ainsworth Award for his contributions to the field of attachment.

Reviews for Exploring in Security: Towards an Attachment-Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

The richness of this book lies in the way that Holmes uses and reflects on a diverse range of theory... Holmes does not take one theoretical perspective and build from this but rather interweaves and critically engages with analytic theorists in relations to his attachment based concepts. His aim, which he certainly fulfils, is to go not just beyond a conversation about theory but to develop a framework of psychoanalysis within the therapeutic community and build and develop both theory, and perhaps more importantly, practice in relation to therapeutic work. -- Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 55, 2010